Bibliograph

The king at the edge of the world, a novel, Arthur Phillips

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The king at the edge of the world, a novel, Arthur Phillips

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The king at the edge of the world

Oclc number

1137787894

Responsibility statement

Arthur Phillips

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Publisher Annotation: The year is 1601. Queen Elizabeth I is dying, childless. Her nervous kingdom has no heir. It is a capital crime even to think that Elizabeth will ever die. Potential successors secretly maneuver to be in position when the inevitable occurs. The leading candidate is King James VI of Scotland, but there is a problem. The queen{u2019}s spymasters{u2014}hardened veterans of a long war on terror and religious extremism{u2014}fear that James is not what he appears. He has every reason to claim to be a Protestant, but if he secretly shares his family{u2019}s Catholicism, then forty years of religious war will have been for nothing, and a bloodbath will ensue. With time running out, London confronts a seemingly impossible question: What does James truly believe? 288pp., 30K

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